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The following program contains accents you would have heard a lot more if you hadn't thrown our tea into Boston Harbor.
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Grabel's Law
2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.
H. L. Mencken
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Dame Edna Everage
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Helen Hayes
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
John Barth
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Charles Dickens
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Carl Sagan
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Samuel Butler
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Oscar Levant
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Seneca
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Dan Rather
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
General Douglas Macarthur
Americans never quit.
Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
J. Bartlett Brebner
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Jeff Melvoin
George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
John F. Kennedy
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Lily Tomlin
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
Robertson Davies
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
